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1 tapering oral prednisolone (1 mg/kg prior to taper).

2 lent to presurgical oral dosing, followed by taper).

3 increased with age, with an unchanged aortic taper.

4 e mofetil twice daily, with a corticosteroid taper.

5 the placebo group that underwent the 52-week taper.

6 group that underwent the 26-week prednisone taper.

7 ination of different brain regions along the taper.

8 are conical, often with a remarkably linear taper.

9 , the adiabatic nanofocusing surface-plasmon taper.

10 group that underwent the 52-week prednisone taper.

11 separation and the detection capillaries are tapered.

12 prednisone and topical corticosteroids were tapered.

13 ory phenotype when glucocorticoid therapy is tapered.

14 After 4 days, the brexanolone dose was tapered.

15 er, relapses are common when prednisolone is tapered.

16 esponsive to corticosteroids, but recur upon tapering.

17 locking technique based on the longitudinal tapering.

18 tly during anti-TNF or concomitant treatment tapering.

19 (~10(13) W cm(-2)) laser pulse and strongly tapered 0.5 m long undulator, we demonstrate >100 MV m(-

20 andomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to receive a tapering 15-day course of oral prednisone (5 days each o

21 (awNO), and/or C(ANO), and post 8- to 10-day tapering 40 mg prednisone (recovery).

22 ng buprenorphine-naloxone than 8 weeks after taper (49.2% [177 of 360] vs 8.6% [31 of 360], P < .001)

23 Prednisone was tapered after 1 month.

24 The associated immunosuppressants were tapered after administering 3 adalimumab injections (wee

25 us haploidentical HSCT with a corticosteroid taper alone.

26 ter-long, axisymmetric, silica rods that are tapered along their lengths.

27 d positioning a pair of parallel cone-tipped tapers along the long stem so that the tips touch the se

28 group that underwent the 26-week prednisone taper and 18% of those in the placebo group that underwe

29 ructed to discontinue LABAs at week 4 and to taper and discontinue inhaled glucocorticoids during wee

30 P < .001) in withdrawal severity between the taper and post-taper periods for clonidine (taper mean,

31 We retrospectively studied vancomycin taper and pulse treatment on 100 consecutive, evaluable

32 ikewise the time spent with overinflation of tapered and cylindrical cuffs.

33 8 months in complete remission, imatinib was tapered and discontinued in 8 FP and 1 MHES subjects.

34 omly assigned to CBT who had antidepressants tapered and discontinued were significantly less likely

35 pressure control reduced the variability of tapered and spherical cuffs likewise the time spent with

36 methotrexate (and placebo-methotrexate) was tapered and stopped, then tocilizumab (and placebo-tocil

37 cilizumab (and placebo-tocilizumab) was also tapered and stopped.

38 alpha1B/betaI+betaIVb microtubules are less tapered and that these tubulin heterodimers display lowe

39 It also allows tapering and discontinuing corticosteroids in most patie

40 We report here that TH cell somata, tapering and varicose inner plexiform layer neurites, an

41 rane domain, including the stereocilia basal tapers and approximately 1 mum of the shaft, the locatio

42 , two connections (an external hexagon and a tapered), and two load applications (axial and oblique),

43 the placebo group that underwent the 26-week taper, and 25% of those in the placebo group that underw

44 utpatient buprenorphine stabilization, brief taper, and naltrexone maintenance for treatment of PO de

45 Three other wing shape genes, narrow, tapered, and lanceolate, encode components of a pathway

46 s commonly relapses when glucocorticoids are tapered, and the prolonged use of glucocorticoids is ass

47 nsulator and metal-insulator-metal waveguide tapers, and therefore representing a significant promise

48 Length and taper angle of the COS reflect the ratio of recycled/new

49 ir given in combination with a staggered and tapered antibiotic withdrawal regimen may resolve recurr

50 hot carriers by slowing down plasmons at the taper apex.

51 c current distributions, with cosine-squared taper are respectively employed to generate predominatel

52 s confirm, that microtubule tips become more tapered as the microtubule grows.

53 ortic bifurcation diameters to assess aortic taper (ascending aortic diameter/aortic bifurcation diam

54 Dendritic tapering away from the soma has been suggested to both e

55 ds decreased contralateral foot-slips on the tapered balance beam, though the difference was not sign

56 n of filopodia-like F-actin networks without tapered barbed ends.

57 eptor Q, normally linked to myosin VI at the tapered base of stereocilia, was maldistributed along th

58 sease onset) VKH disease whose treatment was tapered based only in clinical features were prospective

59 Prednisone was tapered, beginning at week 1, and discontinued no later

60 omer when m-DMSS is used, but to chains with tapered block structures, with the silylated units near

61 also were superior in the 4-week vs briefer tapers (both P = .04).

62 ic bifurcation diameter and decreased aortic taper, both of which also associated with abdominal aort

63 oint of weaning successfully off TLAs before tapering brexanolone.

64 cious selection of the operating conditions, tapered capillaries of various profiles for applications

65 In CIEF carried out in a tapered capillary with the inlet cross-section three tim

66 eft atrium with a guidewire and 1.8F to 2.6F tapered catheter, a self-expandable, 8x12-mm flexible op

67 Streak-based particle velocimetry in a tapered channel was used to assess particle motion.

68 more likely to be retained at the end of the taper compared with clonidine participants (22 [61.1%]);

69 acuity and intraocular pressure, ability to taper concomitant immunosuppressive regimen, and number

70 n the 4-week compared with the 2- and 1-week taper conditions (P = .02), with 63% (n = 14), 29% (n =

71 the bone tissue (P <0.05) compared with the tapered connection.

72 Patients in arm 1 received tapered corticosteroids, stopped after day 10, whereas p

73 Together with a mode-selective, tapered coupling scheme, we generate coherent mode-locke

74 ys of pulse methylprednisolone followed by a tapering course of oral prednisone therapy.

75 resulting in high-aspect ratio channels with tapered cross sections as characterized by confocal fluo

76 Tapered cuffs generated higher cuff pressures and increa

77 Tapered cuffs improved cuff sealing performance compared

78 Compared with spherical cuffs, tapered cuffs reduced the microaspiration score without

79 Polyvinyl chloride tapered cuffs sealing enhanced performance at the cost o

80 The tapered cuffs showed the lowest tracheal wall contact ar

81 Forty tapered cylindrical cavities (4-mm diameter, 2-mm depth)

82 al sealing performance of polyvinyl chloride tapered, cylindrical and spherical cuffs.

83 tonomous feature of principal neurons, where tapering dendrites show an inverse distribution of spine

84 ecular assembly of the Janus dendrimers into tapered dendrons followed by the intramolecular self-ass

85 al polymers dendronized with self-assembling tapered dendrons this new class of dendronized polymers

86 e into the parabolic pulses in the waveguide taper designed.

87 lie differences in firing pattern, while the tapering diameter of AIS may define a trigger zone for a

88 The taper domain forms a sharp boundary with the shaft domai

89 Treatment with 80 mg per day prednisone with tapering dose and adalimumab, induction and maintenance,

90 ed daily i.p. injections of a human-relevant tapering dose of dexamethasone (D; n = 8; 0.5, 0.3, 0.1

91 ves the use of systemic corticosteroids with tapering doses extending up to 9 months after the initia

92 nt from the surface or point of release that tapers down to more distant sites.

93 ovel junctions has been added to the SRA has tapered dramatically, even to the point of an asymptote.

94 nt population, including the effects of drug taper, drug washout, and placebo administration on mood

95 ll participation in research, including drug tapers, drug-free periods, and placebo-controlled trials

96 Experimental condition (ie, taper duration) was the strongest predictor of treatment

97 ed two tip types in Gh fiber (hemisphere and tapered), each with distinct apical diameter, central va

98 e microtubule end as a result of an evolving tapered end structure; this leads to a decrease of the c

99 The tapered ends of the capillaries are inserted into the su

100 The structure reveals the acids in the tapered ends of the capsule and gamma-picoliniums near t

101 Thus, tapered fibers permit focal or broad illumination that c

102 This tapered fibre multimode interference spectrometer achiev

103 We use a tapered fibre to couple into the 5-mum diameter microdis

104 etoxification included a 7-day buprenorphine taper followed by a week-long delay before administratio

105 were randomized to receive 1-, 2-, or 4-week tapers followed by naltrexone therapy.

106 ed significant effects of phase (taper, post taper) for the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) s

107 Taperin, a second protein near the taper, forms a dense-core-like structure that is disrupt

108 The apices of the narrow and perfectly tapered fossil leaves end in a single tentacle, as in bo

109 mg) or placebo, with a mandatory prednisone taper from week 2.

110 n renal function in follow-up (patients were tapered from 16 mg/day to 8 mg/day over 2 weeks and foll

111 CIEF in the tapered FS capillary was also successfully used for the

112 IEF) even if a narrow pH gradient is used, a tapered FS capillary was employed instead, which enabled

113 nhanced separation efficiency of CIEF in the tapered FS capillary.

114 f capillary isoelectric focusing (CIEF) in a tapered fused silica (FS) capillary with matrix-assisted

115 sfer capillary, a standard ESI needle, and a tapered gas nozzle.

116 preparation of fused-silica capillaries with tapered geometry suitable for capillary isoelectric focu

117 ion of a molecular layer self-assembled on a tapered gold microelectrode.

118 strate attosecond near-field retrieval for a tapered gold nanowire.

119 dence for the existence of graphene SPs on a tapered graphene-silicon waveguide tip at a NIR waveleng

120 ved FT and 5 of 12 (41.7%) in the vancomycin taper group experienced recurrence of CDI, corresponding

121 immediate discontinuation group (IDG) or the tapered group (TG).

122 Patients undergoing drug taper had a mean increase in symptom severity of 4.2% (S

123 A proprietary tapered hollow phantom that contained a bone-mimicking i

124 The generation of parabolic similaritons in tapered hydrogenated amorphous silicon photonic wires at

125 the coupled dynamics of optical field in the tapered hydrogenated amorphous silicon photonic wires wi

126 Tapering immunosuppression led to the recuperation of in

127 terfaces of the commercially available Morse taper implant-abutment units tested were not sufficientl

128 36 months, indicate that the variable-thread tapered implant can be used safely and effectively under

129 tissue health surrounding a variable-thread tapered implant immediately placed in extraction sites.

130 significantly different from oral vancomycin taper in reducing recurrent CDI.

131 .003) groups and from stabilization to post taper in the buprenorphine group (stabilization mean, 0.

132 ,159 = 30.7, P < .001) from stabilization to taper in the clonidine (stabilization mean, 0.64 [SE, .0

133 Prednisone was successfully tapered in 95% of patients; mean prednisone doses at 1 a

134 Prednisone was tapered in both groups after 1 month.

135 ly deleterious SMN-enhancing agents could be tapered in human patients once the neuromuscular system

136 nisone (60 mg/m(2) per day) for 3 weeks plus tapering in induction.

137 and relapse currently observed with agonist tapers in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

138 37 implants was placed, 23 with a cone Morse taper internal connection and 14 with a screw-retained i

139 We find that ascidian notochord taper involves three main mechanisms: Planar Cell Polari

140 etween the two coupling regions when a fiber taper is moved laterally above the resonator at fixed ve

141 current transfer in dendrites with arbitrary taper is required.

142 to what extent the immunosuppression can be tapered is unknown, as well as the influence of donor bo

143 Significantly less metal is lost from the taper junction between Cobalt-Chromium-Molybdenum (CoCrM

144 Corrosion particles from the taper junction can lead to Adverse Reactions to Metal De

145 articulation at the head cup bearing and the tapered junctions of orthopaedic hip implants are known

146 lization of an acoustic metasurface based on tapered labyrinthine metamaterials.

147 oup (stabilization mean, 0.46 [SE, .05] post-taper mean, 1.17 [SE, .09]; P = .006), suggesting higher

148 adol ER (stabilization mean, 0.53 [SE, .05]; taper mean, 1.19 [SE, .09]; P = .003) groups and from st

149 onidine (stabilization mean, 0.64 [SE, .05]; taper mean, 1.54 [SE, .10]; P < .001) and tramadol ER (s

150 taper and post-taper periods for clonidine (taper mean, 13.1; post-taper mean, 3.2; P < .001) and tr

151 .001) and tramadol ER (taper mean, 7.4; post-taper mean, 2.8; P = .03), but not buprenorphine (taper

152 eriods for clonidine (taper mean, 13.1; post-taper mean, 3.2; P < .001) and tramadol ER (taper mean,

153 OWS) score (taper mean, 5.19 [SE, .26]; post-taper mean, 3.97 [SE, .23]; F2,170 = 3.6, P = .03) and S

154 SOWS) score (taper mean,8.81 [SE, .40]; post-taper mean, 4.14 [SE, .30]; F2,170 = 15.7, P < .001), bu

155 inical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) score (taper mean, 5.19 [SE, .26]; post-taper mean, 3.97 [SE, .

156 mean, 2.8; P = .03), but not buprenorphine (taper mean, 6.4; post-taper mean, 7.4).

157 but not buprenorphine (taper mean, 6.4; post-taper mean, 7.4).

158 -taper mean, 3.2; P < .001) and tramadol ER (taper mean, 7.4; post-taper mean, 2.8; P = .03), but not

159 ective Opiate Withdrawal Scale (SOWS) score (taper mean,8.81 [SE, .40]; post-taper mean, 4.14 [SE, .3

160 e propose and numerically demonstrate that a tapered-metal-grating structure (TMGS) can achieve high-

161 In particular, by designing surfaces with tapered micro/nanotextures which behave as harmonic spri

162 in the flow of a concentrated emulsion in a tapered microfluidic channel.

163 counter electrodes (QRCEs), in the end of a tapered micrometer-scale pipet is described.

164 polymers with tapered, uniform, and inverse-tapered molecular "shapes." Small-angle X-ray scattering

165 ytes transduced in vivo acquire the cardinal tapering morphology and physiological automaticity of na

166 andomly intubated with cylindrical (n = 26), tapered (n = 24), or spherical (n = 22) polyvinyl chlori

167 Tapered nanopillar structures of different cross-section

168 niformity of the spin current density in the tapered nanowire geometry hinders the excitation of high

169 PSD-95, and PSD-93), that TH cell somata and tapering neurites are also immunopositive for a gamma-am

170 This morphological feature of having a tapered notochord is present in many chordates.

171 by a single 500-mL FT by enema, or a 6-week taper of oral vancomycin.

172 s form a circumferential ring near the basal taper of the mechanically sensitive stereocilia of murin

173 ycin, started on Day -2, was maintained with tapering of blood levels until full withdrawal at 6 mont

174 a high initial dose followed by an extended tapering of doses is found to optimise the use of antibi

175 ved a mandatory prednisone burst followed by tapering of prednisone over the course of 15 weeks.

176 We experimentally demonstrate that tapering of the nanowire, which serves as the STO active

177 s with a score of 1 are candidates for rapid tapers of systemic steroid therapy.

178 A 2-week "burst and taper" of oral prednisone is administered with no effect

179 occurred after the withdrawal, or during the tapering, of immunosuppressive therapy.

180 siveness after having all asthma medications tapered off and after a study pulmonologist established

181 o TQD, continued for a further 12 weeks, and tapered off during week 13.

182 medications had their medications gradually tapered off over 4 study visits.

183 ent groups, most marked in the placebo group tapered off study drug.

184 hile other concentrations a growth rate that tapered off.

185 nitially high nursing home or home care that tapered off; 9% had Long-Term Home Care; 13% had Long-Te

186 After tapering off corticosteroids, he received the fourth dos

187 tients but there are less studies related to tapering off the drugs.

188 ast one fifth of the patients despite slowly tapering off the glucocorticoids.

189 Four patients were cured with IS treatment tapering only.

190 used to pattern multiple light windows on a tapered optical fiber.

191 we developed a methodology based on special tapered optical fibers (TOFs) to deliver highly localize

192 erference from leaky modes along a multimode tapered optical fibre, resulting in spectrally distingui

193 55%) of 29 patients during immunosuppressant taper or discontinuation.

194 We aimed to see whether MBCT with support to taper or discontinue antidepressant treatment (MBCT-TS)

195 s for opioid dependence compared with opioid taper or psychological treatments alone.

196 differences in efficacy compared with opioid taper or psychological treatments alone?

197 feature sizes and complex 3D shapes such as tapered or bent columnar structures bearing hierarchical

198 ontaneous coronary artery dissection, distal tapering or long, smooth narrowing that may represent di

199 vary between centres, but frequently include tapering or substitution of opioids and concomitant co-a

200 Early and/or unnecessary tapering or treatment discontinuation for drug-related a

201 mg, intravenously 3 times daily, followed by taper) or low-dose corticosteroids (LDS; intravenous hyd

202 Using stiffness gradient, aortic taper, or global reflection coefficient in the model pro

203 her week, combined with a 26-week prednisone taper, or placebo combined with a prednisone taper over

204 hin 6 months of completing ATT, inability to taper oral corticosteroids to less than 10 mg/d or topic

205 ticosteroids intravenously for 1 week then a tapering oral dose over 8 weeks.

206 All received a course of tapering oral prednisolone (1 mg/kg prior to taper).

207 robust clinical and spirometric response to tapering oral prednisone.

208 lling followed by stepwise condensation with tapered osteotomes.

209 taper, or placebo combined with a prednisone taper over a period of either 26 weeks or 52 weeks.

210 ber varies the light-emitting portion of the taper over several millimeters without movement of the i

211 s seen in patients receiving corticosteroids tapered over 10 days plus an intraoperative corticostero

212 Antidepressants can be gradually tapered over a period of several weeks, but discontinuat

213 As the prednisone dose is slowly tapered over several months, the hearing drops again.

214 idence interval, 3.18-5.53], with the effect tapering over time.

215 h mycophenolate mofetil and corticosteroids (tapered) over 24 weeks, or tacrolimus QD 0.2 mg/kg per d

216 the placebo group that underwent the 26-week taper (P<0.001 for both comparisons) and 3818 mg in the

217 the placebo group that underwent the 52-week taper (P<0.001 for both comparisons).

218 group that underwent the 52-week prednisone taper (P<0.001 for the comparisons of either active trea

219 0.0001); AP was correlated to aorto-femoral tapering (p < 0.0001) but not PWV.

220 d-over to double-blind placebo during a post-taper period.

221 thdrawal severity between the taper and post-taper periods for clonidine (taper mean, 13.1; post-tape

222 tpatients may respond positively to a 4-week taper plus naltrexone maintenance intervention.

223 rior to either 26-week or 52-week prednisone tapering plus placebo with regard to sustained glucocort

224 rawal revealed significant effects of phase (taper, post taper) for the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Sc

225 analysis, failure to use an oral vancomycin taper preceding FMT was associated with a significant ri

226 ent of Takayasu's patients who are unable to taper prednisone despite treatment with a nonbiologic im

227 rine and mycophenolate mofetil and gradually tapered prednisone.

228 uccessful treatment, without recurrence with tapering prednisone and adalimumab.

229 e shown that with an optimized nanoendoscope taper profile, the light emission and collection was loc

230 oid withdrawal symptoms during a residential tapering program.

231 Our tapered protocol showed benefits, as patients in the TG

232 solone (2 mg/kg/d for 2 weeks) followed by a tapering protocol for 9 weeks (n = 70) or placebo (n = 7

233 Amino acids 371-447 form a tapered pyramid with a triangular cross-section composed

234 escribed by an initial fast hydrolysis rate, tapering rapidly off, leading to a process that takes da

235 hout dexamethasone 0.1% eye ointment, with a tapering regimen based on the response to treatment.

236 r approximately 4 months, after which a slow tapering regimen was initiated.

237 0 mg/day for GCA, followed by individualized tapering regimens in both diseases.

238 ectively lyse adhered endothelial cells in a tapered region of the channel.

239 The shape of the seal vibrissae is that of a tapered right rectangular prism, unlike that of the prev

240 e provided a single-piece combination of the tapered separation space with a cylindrical connection o

241 r hair-bundle stability, is activated at the taper-shaft boundary in a PI(4,5)P(2)-dependent manner,

242 -volume low-pressure cuffs of cylindrical or tapered shape, made of polyvinylchloride or polyurethane

243 haped apertures in SU8 photoresist that have tapered sidewalls and a minimum diameter between 60 and

244 demonstrate that photonic lanterns based on tapered single-mode multicore fibres provide an efficien

245 by a single FT by enema with oral vancomycin taper (standard of care) in adult patients experiencing

246 global organ involvement, or the ability to taper steroids, at 14, 28, and 56 weeks.

247 lar infliximab, in patients who relapse upon tapering steroids and/or adding nonbiologic immunosuppre

248 Topical corticosteroids could be tapered, stopped, or restarted on the basis of disease a

249 ence of KIF3CC resulted in modulation of the tapered structure typically seen in growing dynamic micr

250 er results in light emission from the entire taper surface, achieving broader and more efficient opto

251 Implants with a smooth or tapered surface were considered.

252 ability of four commercially available Morse taper system units to impede bacterial penetration throu

253 The use of Morse taper systems in dental implantology has been associated

254 liver solutes arriving with sharp fronts and tapering tails, whereas thick channels (aspect ratio ~ 1

255 We report planar integration of tapered terahertz (THz) frequency quantum cascade lasers

256 ologic progression after several attempts to taper the steroid dose.

257 Those subjects who subsequently were able to taper their prednisone dose to 10 mg daily without disea

258 Thirty-five patients successfully tapered their prednisone to 10 mg daily.

259 rees ) and connections (external hexagon and tapered) through the use of three-dimensional finite ele

260 leading and lagging protofilaments within a tapered tip.

261 We demonstrate that optical fibers with tapered tips can be used to illuminate either spatially

262 Gh tapered tips ruptured either at the apex or distantly.

263 o and underwent a protocol-defined mandatory taper to discontinue their oral corticosteroids.

264 Following taper to once-daily vancomycin dosing, 22 of 36 patients

265 of radiologic and cutaneous lesions and was tapered to 10 mg/day, then radiologic lesions worsened.

266 was achieved after 12 weeks, ciclesonide was tapered to 160 microg/d for 8 weeks, then to 80 microg/d

267 N was given initially at 0.75 mg/kg per day, tapered to 5 to 2.5 mg per day by month 6.

268 c acid (NA) detection utilizing a micropipet tapered to a 2 mum diameter pore and 3 mum diameter poly

269 Vasopressors were tapered to maintain the same blood pressure target in th

270 eekly for the first 3 months and were slowly tapered to monthly, and then quarterly.

271 ecorded modest increases in the subgroup who tapered to no medications (mean percentage change 5.1% [

272 A width of 100 mum, tapering to a 1 mum point, and a 40 mum thickness help m

273 rm the extraordinary capability of plasmonic tapers to generate hot carriers by slowing down plasmons

274 In particular, we use waveguide tapers to improve the efficiency of excitation and colle

275 eneity was detected in lesions, with gradual tapering toward perilesional NAWM.

276 the gray and subcortical white matter often tapering toward the ventricle.

277 otemporal extension (anakatabatic area) that tapers toward the nasal retina giving rise to a complete

278 treatment, but the optimal initial dose and tapering treatment regimens are unknown.

279 ntrolled (nicotine patch; 21 mg per day with taper) trial of varenicline (1 mg twice a day) and bupro

280 synthesizing AB graft diblock polymers with tapered, uniform, and inverse-tapered molecular "shapes.

281 f hydrocortisone for 5 days followed by dose tapering until day 11 (n = 190) or to receive placebo (n

282 A 7-day taper using clonidine (n = 36), tramadol ER (n = 36), or

283 h as acute coronary syndromes, bifurcations, tapered vessels, overlapping stents, and chronic total o

284 (300 mg daily for 7 days maximum and gradual taper) (VSE group, n = 76) or saline placebo (control gr

285 her week, combined with a 26-week prednisone taper was superior to either 26-week or 52-week predniso

286 Immunosuppression tapering was associated with a lower PTLD mortality (16%

287 n the rates of relapse during glucocorticoid tapering was studied in patients with giant-cell arterit

288 at the fiber input, and the use of a single tapered waveguide minimizes the implant invasiveness.

289 o-colour pumped current source enclosed by a tapered waveguide.

290 ing induced mode coupling, and adiabatically tapered waveguides in the straight region, to avoid exci

291 had a response and underwent glucocorticoid tapering were randomly assigned to continued treatment w

292 dose changed, 57% had their corticosteroids tapered, whereas 43% were abruptly discontinued.

293 y-mode (WGM) microdisk resonator and a fiber taper which exchange energies at two distinct regions.

294 Parenteral nutrition was slowly tapered while increasing enteral tube feeding.

295 d the funnel design had a constant 5 degrees taper with aspect ratios (funnel tip width to funnel dep

296 cile infection and failure of a 6- to 8-week taper with vancomycin or at least 2 episodes of severe C

297 The drug was tapered with disease improvement.

298 All patients underwent prednisone tapering, with patients in VISUAL-1 receiving an initial

299 methadone treatment or to usual care--forced tapered withdrawal from methadone.

300 e at the time of their incarceration, then a tapered withdrawal regimen (for those on a starting dose